Sun Books 2007

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I'm pretty late on planning this year's outdoor reading, but I still have two months for it. In the summer, I go for books on the Mediterranean, Central and South Asia, and Africa, especially travel narratives and history. It's a sensory engagement thing. The list is just a guideline - last year I ended up reading a whole lot of India books, and the previous year it was novels by Amin Maalouf. Anyway:

• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, and sequels, if I like them (edit - loved it, must read sequels)


• Road Through Kurdistan by A.M. Hamilton


• Persian Pictures by Gertrude Bell


• The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes


• Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi (reread)


• Journey to the Source of the Nile by Christopher Ondaatje (reread)


• From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An anthology of archaeological travel writing


• Maybe Ajax by Sophocles


• Maybe one of Arnold's old books about Indian history, perhaps Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India by R.D. Banerji (1934)


• Maybe The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay (reread)


• Maybe Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Stephen O'Shea


• Black Sea by Neal Ascherson (edit - added)

If you have any suggestions in this vein, I'd be interested!